Ash: Unemployment claims wipe out gains

Obama's unemployment claims wipe out gains

On the 1,492nd day of George Bush's presidency, the price of gas had increased 27.5 percent from the first day he was in office. It was $1.90 per gallon. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the MSM were blasting Bush about these extremely high prices.

On the 1,492nd day of Obama's presidency, the price of gas has increased 100 percent or more from the first day he was in office. It's $3.44+ per gallon now. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the MSM have crawled into their holes and are completely silent about this.

Of course this huge increase in prices isn't Obama's fault because we have a no-fault President!

Obama has claimed many times that he has created 6 million new jobs since he took office. Most experts dispute these figures and say that at most 1.2 million people have found employment since Obama took office. But let's play with Obama's figures a bit. If there was actually 6 million people who found jobs this was offset by a like amount of people that have lost their jobs and filed first time unemployment claims. Using these figures it's estimated that under Obama there has been a net gain of 28,000 jobs in more than 4 years. This is an average of 135 jobs per week.

It was reported recently there were 362,000 new first time claims filed during the week ending Feb. 16. The total claims for the first seven weeks of 2013 is now 2,473,000. I would say this wipes out Obama's 28,000 jobs.

- Al Ash

Shreveport

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Ash: Unemployment claims wipe out gains

Obama's unemployment claims wipe out gainsOn the 1,492nd day of George Bush's presidency, the price of gas had increased 27.5 percent from the first day he was in office. It was $1.90 per gallon.

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